Merced News

A new study of California's proposed high-speed rail system estimates $3 billion in direct economic benefits to the Central Valley -- and possibly billions more if the system gives a permanent boost to the ...

The Sierra Riders Trio, from left to right, Tim Johnson, Sonny Coelho and Keith Johnson, of Merced rehearse with the Pops Concert Orchestra in a concert rehearsal at Sierra Presbyterian Church last week.

In the early morning hours Thursday, the Merced County Sheriff's STAR Team hacked through thick weeds and berry bramble to uncover yet another marijuana grow near Merced.

A new study estimates that California's proposed high-speed rail system could bring $3 billion in direct economic benefits -- and possibly billions more -- to the Central Valley.

An economist told the California High Speed Rail Authority board Wednesday that the proposed rail system, subject of a $9.95 billion bond issue on the Nov.

Architect Paul C. Shattuck, has been given the green light to prepare plans for Merced County's proposed new jail and new health department building.

A break-in at the Merced County District Attorney's Office has now delayed some criminal cases, including the trial of an accused child molester.

Rep. George Radanovich, R-Mariposa, voted against the $700 billion bailout bill before he voted for it.

CITIES: In passing a state budget, the legislators didn't resort to an all-out raid on city money as many feared.

September 25, 1983: Weaver School District officials have finalized purchase of property for a new school site and are starting the process of getting state approval for building a second campus.

Bolstering the number of Central Valley residents attending college takes everyone's help, from educators in preschools to those at universities.

Jim Chapman has been driving from Los Banos to Merced to mow the lawn at his parents' house for almost two years.

Merced Police are investigating a double shooting which occurred at an apartment complex near the 1500 block of Ellen Ave.

MERCED, Calif. - A chemistry doctoral student at the University of California, Merced, could be sentenced to more than five years in prison after pleading no contest to charges of conspiracy to make ...

A UC Merced grad student accused of stealing school equipment to make methamphetamine pleaded no contest to charges of felony conspiracy to make meth and to embezzlement.

Eleazor Renteria Magana sits in Merced County Superior Court on Thursday afternoon during opening statements in his homicide trial.

A 42-year-old drifter imprisoned in Montana for murder will spend the rest of his life behind bars after pleading guilty to two killings in the San Joaquin Valley.

In the wake of the death of a corrections officer and a rash of inmate stabbings, U.S. Penitentiary Atwater Warden Dennis Smith will be transferred to another prison.

Ronald James Ward, who was sentenced to life in prison for killing a 25-year-old New Jersey woman at a Morrilton rest stop, has drawn two more life terms for slayings of women in California.

A convicted murderer serving a life sentence in Montana was given two more life sentences after pleading guilty to two murders, prosecutors said Tuesday.